How does nodejistu private npm decide if a module should be private?

Question

Does every module I publish to https://<private>.registry.nodejitsu.com/ become private?

I assumed the private package.json flag would play into it, but I just published a module intended for NPM to nodejitsu, configured as my default registry as recommended, and it got trapped as a private module.

Answer 1

After a chat with nodejitsu support, yep, they're all private. Publish public modules directly to npmjs.org:

$ npm publish --registry="http://registry.npmjs.org"